Can the Board Be Kept Out of Debt, and in What Manner? (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Can the Board Be Kept Out of Debt, and in What Manner? It is matter for grateful acknowledgment that, from the beginning to this day, there has been, on the whole, an up ward tendency in the receipts. Dividing the time of the Board's existence into periods of four years, in every one of these periods, with but a single exception, there has been an increase of receipts. That single exception, it may be worth while to say, was owing to the extraordinary impres sion made on the Christian community by the meeting Of the Board in Philadelphia, in the year 1841, which, through the divine blessing, carried the income of the following year up to the then unprecedented amount Of three hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. The difficulty all along has been, that the growth of the missions, and their increasing cost as the result of growth has been annual and constant, while it has not been so with the receipts, which have often failed for a year or more, and now for a series of years, to keep pace with the natural growth Of the missions. There are sincere friends of the cause who believe the Board ought always to be free from debt. The Prudential Committee desire this as earnestly as it is possible for any one to do, and would gladly know how such a result is to be attained. Though the duty has often been enjoined upon them, they have never yet received a practicable solution of the difficulty involved in its performance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.